Numerous people are usually engaged in various different activities for earning a living but only a few among them create examples of innovations and novelties in approach as well as in application. They do a sort of research, experimenting , watch the difference and employ those new techniques and approaches for self benefit and the benefit of others. Such people get fame and recognition as well, as proved by a woman farmer in Walivar Lar in district Ganderbal Kashmir. Not only has Zaitoon Begum, the concerned farmer with small holding in the area, caused her income to grow by first learning followed by experimenting and then practicing such innovative methods in agricultural activities but shared her new ways with others too. Not only she and her family but over 200 farmers, as such, have also been benefitted by employing such innovative practices in fighting the acute dearth of fodder in the said area.
How and in what manner the woman farmer did it, was shared by her with the Prime Minister recently wherein having vastly benefitted from the advice and the requisite training from the concerned departments, she did it all in her own way resulting in not only addressing the fodder problem but growing grapes, cherries and apples too in her land to boost the income. It is worth noting that the woman farmer has been taking keen interest in the education of the girls in the area too resulting in upping the rate of enrolment in schools. By sheer industry , hard work and experimenting new ways and methods of learning, women not only are continuously showing enviable performance and results in education but in almost all fields as proven by the woman farmer. In the instant case, we also learn that contrary to what generally is perceived, technical persons from social forestry, agriculture and other institutions do keep visiting such areas to interact with farmers and offer solutions to various problems. More of it should be the policy so that more of such small and marginal farmers do and create something above the average to get attention and recognition prominently and also for many others to emulate and follow. Gujjars, Bakarwals and similar groups of the society engaged in farming and indirect agricultural activities having peculiar problems and usually never adopting means of protests and ”coming on the streets”, however, need Government’s attention on priority, and while interacting with Zaitoon Begum, the Prime Minister promising to have such issues addressed, is quite encouraging.
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